Deep Dive Archives

Here you will find all the recordings and resources for previous Deep Dive webinars.

Resources from the event:

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note: these resources might have been referenced directly, might have been a side conversation, or might be bonus resources / announcements

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Thanks to Rev. Kerri Meyers from Good Courage Farm and Jerusalem Greer from Procter Center!

Solar Faithful brings technical expertise and client-friendly financing to simplify participation in a just, clean-energy transition for faith-based organizations. Our work prioritizes serving:

  • Historically disadvantaged people
  • Low-income communities
  • People of all faiths

What is Solar Faithful’s Vision?

A world where faith-based organizations lead the equitable transition to renewable energy—empowered with solutions that strengthen their role as pillars of community care, sustainability, and resiliency.

Guest Mentor: Steve Mulder: In 2017, Steve Mulder retired from a corporate career focused on IT and later Learning and Development. He became a Regional Organizer for the Climate Witness Project. In that role, he collaborated with several other organizations and helped launch Solar Faithful in 2023. He focuses on climate mitigation efforts that include Four E’s: Efficiency, Electrification, renewable Energy; and Environmental restoration. He is driven by his love and concern for the Creation and future generations.  

Guest Mentor: Bob Chapman: Bob is a native Detroiter and a lifelong Michigan resident.  Most of his career has centered on ensuring that energy efficiency and renewables are options for all income levels and geographic areas.  He served as executive director of both the Detroit-based nonprofit EcoWorks and the Michigan Interfaith Power and Light, which promotes sustainable practices for houses of worship.   Now “retired from paid work” (as his wife puts it), Bob actively helps “green”  his church near downtown Detroit.   Bob’s faith pushes him to work for a better, more just world for his children and grandchildren.

Learn more about Solar Faithful here!

Learn more about EcoWorks here and MI Interfaith Power and Light here.

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What is the Canopy of Creation?

“The Canopy of Creation is an invitation to look up. It’s an invitation to notice the shade that meets us like mercy on a hot day; to remember the hush of a wooded trail, the steady presence of trunks and branches that outlast our moods and our news cycles. Many of us already love trees. We have felt their beauty in our bodies as cool air under leaves, birdsong held in a canopy, the quiet companionship of a living thing that asks nothing from us but attention.”

Guest Mentor: Rev. Derrick Weston, Director of Theological Education and Formation
​Derrick Weston is a writer, filmmaker, podcaster, speaker, and educator whose most recent work has focused on the intersection of food and faith. He is the co-host of the Food and Faith podcast and producer of Spoon, Spade, and Soul, a podcast highlighting food and land-based ministries in the Episcopal church. Additionally, he is the producer of the short film series “A Wilderness Like Eden” highlighting the work of churches engaged in food justice work. After two decades of being a pastor and community organizer, Derrick is a strong believer in the potential of local congregations to enact change in their communities.Derrick received his B.A. in film studies from the University of Pittsburgh and his Masters of Divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary. He also has a certification in health ministry from Wesleyan Theological Seminary and was a part of the Re:Generate fellowship on food, faith, and ecology through Wake Forest Divinity School. Derrick is the co-author of the book The Just Kitchen: Invitations to Sustainability, Cooking, Connection, and Celebration and has written numerous articles for several publications. He and his wife Shannon have four children and live outside of Baltimore, Maryland. 

Click HERE to learn more about Creation Justice Ministries

Resources from the event

  • Thanks to Rev. Derrick Weston for leading this event!
  • Recording of this event
  • Creation Justice Ministries website
  • The Canopy of Creation resource – you can download and use – native and beneficial to the ecosystem around you
  • Tree Equity Score website
  • Trevecca – Urban Farm
  • Mennonite Men – 1 million trees by 2030 – website
  • SUGi Walks & Citizen Science – Greening Cities & Reimagining Urban Life – website
  • Iroko Tree
  • Church Forests of Ethiopia – wikipedia
  • The Communion Forest – website
  • Eden Theological Seminary – Eden Grove and Labyrinth
  • USDA – grants – explore these pages for possible grants
  • ECCG Deep Dive archives – see all of the resources from previous events.

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July 2026 – Eco – Regions and Why They Matter, and All About the Episcopal Creation Care Gathering 2026 with the Rt. Rev’d Cathleen Bascom and others

What are Eco-Regions?

Eco-Regions are partnerships of dioceses and community partners based on shared ecosystems, watersheds, or environmental concerns. These partnerships aim to foster community and cultivate a collaborative environment where people, projects, and properties are shared, and nature-based climate solutions that address local and regional needs are implemented. Through these Eco-Regions, we aspire to equip and empower individuals, parishes, dioceses, and regions to transform our use of our land and waterways, and invite us to consider how to grow, distribute, and consume food in a fashion that glorifies God. 

Guest Mentor: Bishop Cathleen Bascom

Bishop Cathleen Bascom, Episcopal Eco-Region Network Consultant
In her role as a Consultant to the Presiding Bishop and his Mission-Creation Care staff,
Cathleen has helped to shape twelve emerging Eco-Region Networks across the
Episcopal Church. These Networks link people of faith involved in nature preservation
and restoration and regenerative agriculture and just food systems toward carbon-
neutrality and climate mitigation.

Cathleen served as Bishop Diocesan of the Diocese of Kansas from 2019 to 2026
In 2020, Cathleen published an ecological theological novel Of Green Stuff Woven and is
currently working on a sequel with the working title Bishop of Bluestem.
She served for six years on TEC Interim bodies dedicated to Creation Care and ending
environmental racism.


She served as Co-chair of the Legislative Committee on Environmental Stewardship and
Creation Care for the 2024 General Convention, overseeing Resolution B002 that
formally brought Eco-Region Networks into existence. In the Diocese of Kansas, she worked with leaders to establish the Bethany House and Garden at the Diocesan Center in Topeka. This innovative ministry serves the local community, providing green space in one of the state’s most impoverished neighborhoods and access to healthy food and education in grasslands restoration and sustainable
gardening practices.

Creation Care has long been a central focus of Cathleen’s ministry. She sponsored
creation scholars at Kansas State University; oversaw the installation of a downtown
Prairie green space as a cathedral dean in Des Moines, Iowa, and has helped local parishes
plant postage stamp prairies and organize around environmental concerns across Iowa
and Kansas. Cathleen was ordained a priest in 1990 and has served urban, suburban, small-town, and
academic communities between the Great Lakes and the Rockies.

Cathleen’s academic background includes B.A.(English Honors) University of Kansas;
M.A. (English Literature) Exeter University (U.K.); M.Div. Seabury-Western; D.Min.
(Homiletics) Iliff School of Theology and M.F.A. (Creative Writing and the
Environment) Iowa State University.

Cathleen is married to author and professor Tim Bascom, and they have two grown sons
Conrad and Luke.